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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Ethiopian Nun and Piano Virtuoso

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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as a nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend of Western and Ethiopian influences, died March 26 at her convent in Jerusalem. https://apple.news/AMY9mwi5lQiOuCOyGTtWKHw

By Brian Murphy

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